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1959

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Jimmy Porter (Richard Burton), the archetypal "angry young man" is a university graduate living with his wife Allison (Mary Ure) in squalor. He reviles society, the upper classes, the State, the Church and everything else that he sees as governed by hypocrisy. For a living, the disgruntled Jimmy runs a sweet stall in a street .. Read more

Starring	Richard Burton, Gary Raymond, Mary Ure, Donald Pleasence
Director	Tony Richardson
Genres	Drama

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  Men: rotten. Women: generous victims
  
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  50s Roaring Burton
  
  A 50s play with some eternal matters, not least of which is the supposed vituperative power of men over women. Burton does well as the bullying husband of the ... read more »
  
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  Nowadays we're more likely to look back in mild irritation such has been the effect of the passing years on John Osbourne's once firebrand play. It'... read more »
  
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  Look back in embarrassment
  
  This film is fairly faithful to the epochal play by John Osborne of 1956, reckoned to have changed British theatre for ever. At this distance it's hard to ... read more »
  
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  Men: rotten. Women: generous victims
  
  The film captured the mood of its time superbly. It is sad to see the male's selfishness, and one must admire and pity the patience and the plight of the ... read more »
  
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  Men: rotten. Women: generous victims
  
  The film captured the mood of its time superbly. It is sad to see the male's selfishness, and one must admire and pity the patience and the plight of the ... read more »
  
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  Look back in embarrassment
  
  This film is fairly faithful to the epochal play by John Osborne of 1956, reckoned to have changed British theatre for ever. At this distance it's hard to ... read more »
  
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  Lost its edge
  
  Nowadays we're more likely to look back in mild irritation such has been the effect of the passing years on John Osbourne's once firebrand play. It'... read more »
  
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  50s Roaring Burton
  
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  Jimmy Porter (Richard Burton), the archetypal "angry young man" is a university graduate living with his wife Allison (Mary Ure) in squalor. He reviles society, the upper classes, the State, the Church and everything else that he sees as governed by hypocrisy. For a living, the disgruntled Jimmy ...